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In each of the ten main chapters - dealing in turn with antigravity, space travel, aliens, time travel, the nature of reality, invisibility, robots, means of transportation, augmentation of the human body, and, last but not least, mad scientists - common assumptions once made by the SF community about how the future would turn out are compared with our modern understanding of various scientific phenomena and, in some cases, with the industrial scaling of computational and technological breakthroughs.
A further intention is to explain how the predictions and expectations of SF were rooted in the scientific orthodoxy of theirday, and use this to explore how our scientific understanding of various topics has developed over time, as well as to demonstrate how the ideas popularized in SF subsequently influenced working scientists.
Since gaining a BSc in physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester, Stephen Webb has worked in a variety of universities in the UK. He is a regular contributor to the Yearbook of Astronomy series and has published an undergraduate textbook on distance determination in astronomy and cosmology as well as several popular science books.
In each of the ten main chapters - dealing in turn with antigravity, space travel, aliens, time travel, the nature of reality, invisibility, robots, means of transportation, augmentation of the human body, and, last but not least, mad scientists - common assumptions once made by the SF community about how the future would turn out are compared with our modern understanding of various scientific phenomena and, in some cases, with the industrial scaling of computational and technological breakthroughs.
A further intention is to explain how the predictions and expectations of SF were rooted in the scientific orthodoxy of theirday, and use this to explore how our scientific understanding of various topics has developed over time, as well as to demonstrate how the ideas popularized in SF subsequently influenced working scientists.
Since gaining a BSc in physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester, Stephen Webb has worked in a variety of universities in the UK. He is a regular contributor to the Yearbook of Astronomy series and has published an undergraduate textbook on distance determination in astronomy and cosmology as well as several popular science books.
Since gaining a BSc in physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester, Stephen Webb has worked in a variety of universities in the UK. He is a regular contributor to the Yearbook of Astronomy series and has published an undergraduate textbook Measuring the Universe - The Cosmological Distance Ladder (1999) as well as several popular science books, among them Out of this World - Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics in 2004, New Eyes on the Universe - Twelve Cosmic Mysteries and the Tools We Need to Solve Them in 2012, and, in 2015, the second edition of If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial, published as part of Springer's Science and Fiction series.
Looks at exciting SF predictions of the past and what has become of them
Explains how predictions were rooted in the scientific orthodoxy of their day
Shows how ideas popularized in SF subsequently influenced working scientists
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Technik allg. |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Reihe: | Science and Fiction |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9783319517582 |
| ISBN-10: | 3319517589 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 978-3-319-51758-2 |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Webb, Stephen |
| Auflage: | 1st ed. 2017 |
| Hersteller: |
Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG Science and Fiction |
| Maße: | 235 x 155 x 20 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Stephen Webb |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 10.05.2017 |
| Gewicht: | 0,546 kg |
Since gaining a BSc in physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester, Stephen Webb has worked in a variety of universities in the UK. He is a regular contributor to the Yearbook of Astronomy series and has published an undergraduate textbook Measuring the Universe - The Cosmological Distance Ladder (1999) as well as several popular science books, among them Out of this World - Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics in 2004, New Eyes on the Universe - Twelve Cosmic Mysteries and the Tools We Need to Solve Them in 2012, and, in 2015, the second edition of If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial, published as part of Springer's Science and Fiction series.
Looks at exciting SF predictions of the past and what has become of them
Explains how predictions were rooted in the scientific orthodoxy of their day
Shows how ideas popularized in SF subsequently influenced working scientists
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Technik allg. |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Reihe: | Science and Fiction |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9783319517582 |
| ISBN-10: | 3319517589 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 978-3-319-51758-2 |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Webb, Stephen |
| Auflage: | 1st ed. 2017 |
| Hersteller: |
Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG Science and Fiction |
| Maße: | 235 x 155 x 20 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Stephen Webb |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 10.05.2017 |
| Gewicht: | 0,546 kg |
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